The reason why DMX pretended to be an FBI agent
DMX had a criminal record considerably longer than his catalogue of albums, with offenses ranging from the very serious to the absurd. But sitting between both these categories is the time he was caught pretending to be an FBI agent at an airport.
During the summer of 2004, at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, a 33-year-old X got himself into a lot of trouble in a sort of frenzy of unacceptable behavior. The details remain slightly hazy about how things played out exactly, but, from what we know, things became wild.
Reports at the time conveyed that X allegedly smashed a sports car through a carpark gate at the airport. This is believed to have occurred after he had told an attendant on the site that he was a government agent.
This wasn’t the only alleged infraction. In another carpark nearby, X supposedly approached another vehicle and told the driver to get out. This person, naturally, refused, which apparently caused X to declare himself an FBI agent and to physically try to bundle the man out of the car.
DMX and an accomplice were later arrested, with police finding a baton and crack cocaine rocks in the car. Both X and his friend were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and of a controlled substance.
X, specifically, was also charged with criminal mischief, impersonation, menacing, and driving under the influence, plus some other offences.
Why exactly this incident occurred is not entirely clear, but it seems that X was inebriated and in possession of things he shouldn’t have been. He felt he needed to get away from this airport, and, in an attempt to do so, he tried to gain access to a vehicle by claiming to be an agent with the authority to commandeer a car.
The “plan,” if it can be called that, did not work. He was arrested and faced up to seven years imprisonment, if he was to be convicted.
In the end, he was given a conditional discharge. But he was found guilty of breaking the terms of his parole, which he was on at the time, which meant he was sent to jail for 70 days in late 2005. He got out early for good behaviour.